New PC racing sim - Assetto Corsa

[RobM77]

The Lotuses are actually my favourites :-) The Exige, 2-Eleven and Elise I've driven in real life and compared to their peers, so that's not too surprising. What's been the real surprise for me is that I always thought that given a lottery win budget, I'd prefer the 458, Pagani or Mclaren to Lotus' everyday sports/GT offering, the Evora. The Zonda is actually my dream car. That to me seemed obvious, but actually, in AC I prefer the Evora to any of those. That decision surprises me, because my very principles in life are to never have a bias - I try to treat everyone and everything equally, and with cars that means doing so regardless of badge. Genuinely though, those Lotuses are my favourite cars in each and every category.

My favourites on the sim are: Lotus 49, 2-Eleven, Exige and Evora. Lotus in each category! In real life this is compounded by the fact that Lotuses have natural feeling steering with feel (unlike most cars, they still use hydraulic PAS, and avoid it altogether on the others) and a non laggy throttle, which plagues most modern cars.

Edited by RobM77 on Saturday 7th December 20:53

[TheGroover]

Purchased and had a go today, I'm liking it I'm enjoying just driving round the track in a Lotus at the moment getting the hang of it. I've never really played a "proper" driving sim on a PC before, truth be told I fell out with PC gaming yeats ago after getting thoroughly fed up with issues just getting games to run. Steam seems to have sorted that out though!

A time from today - 2:03.304 in a Lotus Exige Scura at Monza 1966. How far behind the curve am I? Go on - depress me!

[RobM77]

TheGroover said:

Purchased and had a go today, I'm liking it I'm enjoying just driving round the track in a Lotus at the moment getting the hang of it. I've never really played a "proper" driving sim on a PC before, truth be told I fell out with PC gaming yeats ago after getting thoroughly fed up with issues just getting games to run. Steam seems to have sorted that out though!

A time from today - 2:03.304 in a Lotus Exige Scura at Monza 1966. How far behind the curve am I? Go on - depress me!

Welcome back to PC gaming! AC is an utterly fantastic sim, so you've returned at a good time :-) I've tried most of the console offerings and they're just unrealistic games for kids, rather than sims, so it's well worth getting AC for the PC.

I've no times for the Exige but in the 2-Eleven I'm in the 1m14s at Silverstone International and 1m48s at Valleluga. I'm used to sims and also race in real life, but only play perhaps 20 minutes every other day. If I played more I expect I could knock a second or perhaps two off those times, but it'll give you a ballpark to aim for

[andrewrob]

TheGroover said:

A time from today - 2:03.304 in a Lotus Exige Scura at Monza 1966. How far behind the curve am I? Go on - depress me!

1:50 although I have clocked up 30 hours of track time in the game so have a little bit of a head start!
Addicted to Imola with the Zonda R and Mclaren MP4-12C at the moment.

[TheGroover]

Good lord!! Miles off! It looks like I'll have to investigate setups I think. I spent a while getting the wheel set up (driving force gt) as it was 180 degrees lock to lock to begin with, which was awful. I haven't done any car tweaking. 12 seconds though! I'll have a crack at the other times to see if I'm as far behind on them as well :O

[andrewrob]

TheGroover said:

Good lord!! Miles off! It looks like I'll have to investigate setups I think. I spent a while getting the wheel set up (driving force gt) as it was 180 degrees lock to lock to begin with, which was awful. I haven't done any car tweaking. 12 seconds though! I'll have a crack at the other times to see if I'm as far behind on them as well :O

Just checking the scura is the black one with the supercharger whine isn't it?
One reason my time might be quicker is my wheel has 900 degrees of rotation which makes it a hell of a lot easier to get it spot on on the high speed loose corners.

[TheGroover]

andrewrob said:

Just checking the scura is the black one with the supercharger whine isn't it?
One reason my time might be quicker is my wheel has 900 degrees of rotation which makes it a hell of a lot easier to get it spot on on the high speed loose corners.

The wheel is 900 degrees now, which is much better. I had to download the Logitech software to set it up like that. I'm not sure re: the supercharger. I can say the car was NOT fast. It only hit about 115 MPH on the straights, which seemed slow to me.

[andycambo]

I recommend this website and their downloadable app for AC - http://www.radiators-champ.com/RSRLiveTiming/

Gives you a better idea of where you stand in terms of times.

Should we have a PH Car/Track hotlap challenge for a bit of fun? I'm not particularly fast btw but it might be fun.

Any preferences of the combo?

[andrewrob]

andycambo said:

I recommend this website and their downloadable app for AC - http://www.radiators-champ.com/RSRLiveTiming/

Gives you a better idea of where you stand in terms of times.

Should we have a PH Car/Track hotlap challenge for a bit of fun? I'm not particularly fast btw but it might be fun.

Any preferences of the combo?

Sounds like a good idea.
I like Imola with the Pagani or Mclaren but am happy doing anything else too.

[TheGroover]

I'm up for that. Any car\track combo is fine by me. Maybe have a couple of contrasting combos?

[TheGroover]

So, settings to "pro" and a couple of minor tweaks and I'm down in the low 1:50's. Even managed a best of 1:50.5! However, consistency is an issue - I do seem to leave the track every other lap :-D Getting those times lap after lap is the goal I'm sure...

[Rob P]

Just installed this, great game! The physics seem very good, the weight transfer in particular feels very accurate through my G27. Looking very promising.

Can't quite get the graphics right yet, seem to have a lot of jaggies, but the frame rate is good on my rig (i3, GTX 460, 4GB RAM).

Into mid 2.30's with the Elise SC at Silverstone, still plenty of time to find I think. Anyone care to challenge me with their time?

I'll have a go at Monza later and see what times I get get compared to those mentioned in the posts above.

[andrewrob]

I'm still struggling to get that live timing app to work. It just won't connect, tried turning off firewall and windows firewall.

This weeks update looks great, tipped to be E30 DTM, 599XX, Ferrari F40 and present day Monza.
Some teasers of what's coming below

[Altrezia]

I bloody love this game.

Do need AI / Multiplayer though - I am not a huge fan of hot-lapping alone.

That said, I am going to give Silverstone a go in the SC to see how I compare..

[andrewrob]

Oops not a 599xx, this

[Rob P]

Ooops, I meant mid 2.40's at Silverstone in the Elise!

Down to 2.41.5 now, sure I can find another 5 seconds.....

[Rob P]

2.40 on the nose, with a few mistakes, giving up now. More tomorrow....

[Altrezia]

Ah, thank god. I did a 2:34.7 and thought I was miles off.

[Spiritual_Beggar]

andrewrob said:

Oops not a 599xx, this

Slightly OT, but BMW really need to make road going version of this.

A replacement for the old M Coupe, and with a V8 in it like the GT car.


Back on topic, have they indicated a potential release date for AC yet, or are they running a prolonged Beta access on it?

Edited by Spiritual_Beggar on Tuesday 17th December 23:51

[andrewrob]

RE release date, not as far as I'm aware. The only thing they have stated is that multiplayer won't arrive until final release.

Looks like we might be getting the 599xx still on this update, hope so!